Chapter 217: Courage
Zhou Wanwan slowly closed her eyes, and her heart was cold.
In the five years since she was reborn, she has never been so powerless, so sad, and never so selfish as she is at this moment.
In order to protect himself, he retreated into a corner and watched the world be subverted, chaotic, and demons rampant.
The cruelest and darkest side of human nature is magnified, encouraged, and flaunted and forced in front of you, forcing you to see, either madness or death, no one is immune.
Zhou Wanwan always thought that in the past ten years, she could stand by calmly, she thought that she knew this stage very well, knew how to protect herself, how to stay out of things, and now it seems that she is too naΓ―ve.
This frenzy does not allow anyone to be an outsider, even if psychologically detached, feels powerless and frightened in the face of its engulfing power.
The scene that happened in front of me was too common in this chaos, even a girl like Zhou Wanwan in her previous life who didn't care about current affairs heard a lot more than this cruel and bloody thing.
But that's not what you saw with your own eyes.
When all these sorrows, despairs, blood, and ugliness were placed in front of her, Zhou Wanwan's psychology was hit like never before.
She was like standing on the shore watching others drowning, knowing that she could swim and could save her, but she couldn't. Because she knew very well that if she went to save her, the end result would be to be dragged down by the drowning man and die in this filthy mud pit like him. There is no chance of a fluke.
So she could only sit on the sidelines.
But that didn't diminish her psychological guilt and the powerlessness that came with it.
Zhou Wanwan finally understood that she was in it. No one is immune.
"What's wrong? Uncomfortable? Shen Guodong keenly noticed that something was wrong with Zhou Wanwan, and hurriedly touched her forehead.
Even Xiao Wang, who had been making a lot of noise, quieted down. Tilting his head and looking at her with concern.
"It's okay, Brother Shen, I'm just a little tired and want to squint for a while." Zhou Wanwan closed her eyes and rubbed Shen Guodong's palm with her forehead.
She didn't dare to open her eyes, and now, she didn't have the strength to hide the emotion in her eyes.
Shen Guodong held Zhou Wanwan in his arms. Unbutton her coat and hold her close to her so that her face was pressed against her chest. Through a thin layer of shirt, Shen Guodong's body temperature quickly spread.
Zhou Wanwan hugged Shen Guodong more closely, she needed this warmth so much now.
Since her rebirth, her brothers have been too rich and warm in their love. made her heart, which was as cold as iron, slowly melt unconsciously. With the warmth, the sense of touch is restored, so that she can sensitively perceive the smallest and most wonderful beauty and emotions in the world, and it also makes her heart unconsciously breed compassion, kindness and justice.
Only when she has received the purest and most beautiful love can she know to cherish and give, and she is slowly doing it now, but it seems so out of place and out of place in this era.
Evening of the week. Calm down! You have to be calm! Zhou Wanwan closed her eyes and forced herself to relax slowly. Constantly convincing myself.
You've been aware of all of this for a long time, and you've been mentally prepared for it, haven't you? This is just the beginning, you can't support it, how are you going to face it in the next ten years? How to protect my brothers?
Do you want them to worry about you? So what's the point of your return? There were so many experiences in your previous life, so you can't bear such a little impact?
Zhou Wanwan slowly relaxed, and slowly adjusted himself.
In fact, she couldn't know better, it's not that she has poor psychological tolerance, but that she understands the consequences of these things too well, and she also understands the scale of this red revolution too well, and what happened to Da Lanzi's mother and son is just a fuse in her psychology, and she is heartache for all the people who have suffered misfortunes in the past ten years.
The ignorant are fearless, and she is afraid because she knows too well.
You have to be calm, you have to be strong, you have to be brave in the face. There is nothing you can do in the face of this monstrous wave. But you have to protect the people around you from going with the flow, let alone being hurt by this chaos, you have a lot of responsibility, so you have to adjust yourself.
Zhou Wanwan's heartbeat slowly stabilized, and her whole body began to relax. She can't do it, but she can protect her loved ones, which is more important than anything else. More than anything else, she regained her courage and strength.
Therefore, when the jeep stopped at the gate of Zhou's house, Zhou Wanwan was already able to lie on the window and shout Zhou Chen, "Second brother!" Do you make meat buns? We didn't eat dinner, so we hurried back to eat your meat buns! β
Shen Guodong touched the little girl's fluffy little curly hair, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. I can't let her see this mess in the future, I was almost frightened just now!
Zhou Chen trotted out to pick up his sister, and as soon as he held Zhou Wanwan in his arms, he watched in amazement as Uncle Zhang got out of the car with Xiao Wang in his arms.
Xiao Wang's four feet were tightly slapping Uncle Zhang, his hairy head was on Uncle Zhang's shoulder, learning from Zhou Wanwan's usual coquettish appearance with his brothers, his little eyes were shining, and he was so happy that he stretched out his big tongue and panted.
"What kind of demon is it?!" Zhou Chen laughed angrily at it.
This guy looks wrong, usually at home it dares to bully Zhou Wanwan like this, but Zhou Wanwan can't hold it, at most it puts its head on her lap for a while, how dare people hold it.
Uncle Zhang smiled bitterly, "Bullied me all the way!" Get out of the car and hold me on top of me! β
"Get down!" Shen Guodong's eyes widened, and he pointed at Xiao Wang.
Xiao Wang whined twice aggrievedly, and reluctantly got down from Uncle Xiao Zhang.
Uncle Zhang was immediately distressed, "I'll carry it into the house!" It's just a few steps, and it's not sinking. β
Zhou Wanwan smiled, Xiao Wang's weight just measured the day before yesterday, one hundred and five pounds, Uncle Xiao Zhang can really stare at his eyes and talk nonsense......
"Come on! Just one time today! You can't be so willful in the future! Uncle Zhang is like a father who spoils his children without principles, saying harsh words on his lips, but his eyes are full of unprincipled connivance.
Xiao Wang is the best at observing words and feelings. immediately came to the spirit, jumped into Uncle Zhang's arms, and shook his big tail dizzily. Don't forget to rub your head on him.
"See how I'll clean you up later!" Shen Guodong always had to give Uncle Zhang face, so he could only mumble and be ruthless in the back.
Xiao Wang was a lucky child, Shen Guodong didn't have time to clean it up, so someone rushed to the door to ask him to clean it up.
Uncle Xiao Zhang had just sat on the long table under the flower tree and drank two sips of water, and he hadn't had time to taste the wisteria cake made by Zhou Chenxin, and the courtyard of Second Uncle Liu's house next door was in a commotion.
The two-meter-high flower wall can completely block the view, but it can't block the sound at all. I can hear it all over there.
"Makes your mouth hungry! There is no class position at all!? Usually I read the *treasure book to you three times a day, and you hear it in the dog's belly?! If you give it to eat, you will eat it! That's not an egg! That's a sugar-coated cannonball for the class enemy! I'll let you eat! β
Second Uncle Liu's angry roar and the little girl's heart-rending cry were mixed together, and there was a crackling sound that I didn't know what to hit people. The dissuasive cries of Grandma Liu and Second Aunt Liu also came over immediately, attracting the attention of everyone in the yard.
"Kill you! You still have the face to cry!? One egg today, tomorrow you will have to betray the people's revolution for a piece of meat! What's the use of keeping you rubbish without the slightest revolutionary consciousness?! I'm going to kill you today on behalf of the people! Save me a shame later! β
Except for Zhou Wanwan, no one noticed it and heard Second Uncle Liu's words clearly. Zhou Chen's face turned cold all of a sudden.
Shen Guodong picked up Zhou Wanwan and entered the house as soon as possible. The little girl was just scared. Don't be scared anymore this time!
"Brother Shen, Second Uncle Liu is going to make jokes again, let's listen to it!" Zhou Wanwan's big eyes were bright, and she looked at the flower wall in the west with interest, without a little fear.
Second Uncle Liu was always enthusiastic about revolution, asking for instructions and reporting to the chairman every day, reading the treasure book before dinner, and talking about the class struggle. They listen to it every day and treat it as a joke.
Shen Guodong glanced at the little girl seriously. found that she was indeed not afraid, and she was not uncomfortable because of this incident, so he carried her back to the yard again.
Second Uncle Liu's house was already in a mess, Second Uncle Liu chased and beat the children all over the yard, Second Aunt Liu and Grandma Liu tried their best to stop it, chickens and dogs jumped, it was very lively.
The courtyard of the Zhou family listened quietly, Zhou Chen's eyes became colder and colder, and several other people also saw a little clue, and as soon as they contacted each other, it was easy to figure out the ins and outs of the matter.
Zhou Chen must have given eggs to the children of Second Uncle Liu's family, or did he give them secretly.
Second Uncle Liu's family education is very strict, in April and May, the family is almost interrupted, and he does not allow Second Aunt Liu to go out to borrow grain, borrowing food is a debt of favor! How can he carry out revolutionary work selflessly in the future?
Hungry? Stand up when you're hungry! Drinking cold water also has to maintain the purity of revolutionary work!
Even when Grandma Liu went out to dig wild vegetables, he had to ask clearly, where did he dig this wild vegetables? In the field of the production team? No way! If it grows in the public field, it is not a grass, and you can't take it! That's taking advantage of the public! Give me all the pigs in the team to eat!
In the past two years, Second Uncle Liu has concentrated on the revolution, running before and after conveying ideas and engaging in criticism, and the workers in the team cannot come out on time, and the captain said that he is doing things for the public and wants to make up for his work, but he said that he would not ask for anything.
He is contributing to the revolutionary cause! What a glorious thing! Talking about money with the revolution, how low is the consciousness?
Therefore, in the past two years, their family has received very little money and grain from the production team, and now they have to eat wild vegetables for three or four months a year.
The family lacked food, and even hunted pigweed and dug wild vegetables were severely restricted by him, of course, he could not raise chickens and pigs, and even the pigs set by the state every year could not be handed over, so they could only take out a large part of the small amount of grain to pay the fine.
This made life even worse for their family. In the past, the second uncle's family of Liu, who belonged to the middle level or above in Tunzi, has lived almost as badly as the second Laizi's family in the past two years.
Zhou Yang wanted to help several times, but he didn't want to interfere with anything else, so it's always okay to hand over tasks for their family, right? In this way, their family can leave more food, and it will not make Wei Hong, who is a little more than two years old, hungry and hungry, with a big head and a big belly, but his little arms and legs are as thin and weak as firewood sticks, and he won't leave when he is so old.
Zhou Yang couldn't see the little girl starving and suffering the most, which always reminded him of his sister who had almost starved to death.
But Second Uncle Liu resolutely refused to accept it, and even Second Aunt Liu knelt down and begged him. No matter how pitiful the Zhou Yang brothers are, there is no way to do it.
For the poverty of the family, Second Uncle Liu never felt ashamed of his wife and children, but he was proud of it.
Poor, this is the true nature of the poor middle peasants! Only by being poor can we go all out to carry out the revolution! The poorer, the more glorious! Their family must always maintain their revolutionary enthusiasm and remain gloriously poor like this!
The children are hungry and malnourished, Grandma Liu's back hurts so much that she can't stand up and can't afford to buy four painkillers for a penny, Aunt Liu can't even afford toilet paper when she comes to menstruation, he can't see this, as long as he maintains the revolutionary purity of his poor middle peasants, he feels glorious and energetic when he is hungry! (To be continued......)